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Historically, Makefiles generation is merely a cache of platform introspection on systems that were orders of magnitudes slower than what we have now. I suspect
by tuyiown 4y ago
Historically, Makefiles generation is merely a cache of platform introspection on systems that were orders of magnitudes slower than what we have now. I suspect that any other approach based on Makefile only would have implied higher memory consumption and/or implied slow rotating disk I/O.
- account42 4y agoActually on my 64-thread Threadripper that cache is more important than ever as the make step parallelizes nicely but the configure step usually is 100% serialized.